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Identity technology developer Viisage Technology Inc. this week said it has won a contract with the U.S. State Department to provide face-recognition technology to be used in a border security program. Starting in February, the Consular Affairs Office will begin using the Viisage technology to check applicant photos for duplicates and possible fraud in applications. […]

Microsoft Corp. this week said it would devote a larger part of its massive $6.8 billion research and development budget to making its software more secure and reliable. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that Microsoft wants to boost the number of secure computers by updating software automatically via the Internet. Gates said that only 20 […]

Telemarketers are now required to transmit their telephone numbers and other caller-ID information under new rules that took effect this week. Along with their telephone numbers, telemarketers will be required to transmit their names to caller-ID readers where technically possible, the FTC said. Telemarketers may alternatively transmit the names and phone numbers of the companies […]

Are small-business and home users ready to sign up for subscription-based security services from Microsoft Corp.? Next week, on February 6, Microsoft is officially ending the testing phase of its “PC Satisfaction Trial.” But the company is still refusing to say how, when and if it will go live with the various security services it […]

A consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers next week will unveil a format for memory cards that will be smaller than Secure Digital (SD) cards. The format is the brainchild of a newly founded group called the Universal Transportable Memory Association (UTMA). The cards will be able to hold 1GB of data at first and add […]

IBM this week introduced a new storage product to zip files across enterprise networks. The new IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 system is a big step up from the companys previous NAS Gateway 300 product, IBMs NAS product manager David Vaughn said. While the earlier product relied on Intel chips, the 500 is the first […]

Emulex Corp. this week announced its 4Gbps InSpeed SOC (Switch-On-a-Chip) 422 Fibre Channel embedded storage switch. The mSOC 422 provides 22 ports of connectivity in a highly-integrated device that can be used to implement a wide variety of embedded storage applications, including SBODs (Switched Bunch of Disks), Root Switches, and Fully Switched Architectures. Emulex said […]

ADIC last week said its Scalar 24 and 100 libraries are now iSCSI-enabled. This support will allow IT managers to increase back-up performance by connecting the tape library directly to the Ethernet network, the company said. Of the tape library vendors in the market, only ADIC and Spectra Logic Corp. currently support iSCSI. The capability […]

Online auction giant eBay Inc. last week said it has suspended several sellers for uploading special programs to the eBay Web site that allowed them to remove negative “feedback” left by previous customers. According to eBay, the sellers forged their feedback profiles using Javascript. Ebay officials would not go into any more details about how […]

TruSecure Corp. this week unveiled its IntelliShield Early Warning System (EWS), a threat management system that is intended to simplify network security management by matching up software vulnerability alerts from TruSecures IntelliSheild service with affected systems deployed on a network, according to the company. Alerts from IntelliShield are fed to an EWS device at the […]

Network Associates Technology Inc. this week unveiled a new McAfee desktop managed firewall service for small and midsize businesses. Resellers set up the firewall service by going to a Web site and making minor field-based configurations. A software agent in turn is pushed out to the desktop, and every time a user is online, the […]

A new version of the Dumaru worm has surfaced, affecting Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, NT, XP, 98, 95 and ME systems via an e-mail. This version creates a Windows Hook that logs keystrokes and opens two backdoors that experts say could enable an attacker to gain remote control of an infected system. The worm […]